Posted on 25th April, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Amazon, Amazon Streaming Strategy, Google Home, Radio Disruption, Spotify, Us Radio Market and Voice Control
History doesn’t repeat itself. It does, however, rhyme. Amazon have followed up the announcement of its free music streaming service by elaborating on its integration into Alexa and its Echo…
Read morePosted on 17th April, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in Ad Supported, Ad Supported Strategy, Ad Supported Streaming, Amazon, Amazon Ad Revenues, Amazon Ad Strategy, Amazon Music Unlimited, Amazon Prime Music, Amazon Prime Video, Facebook, Facebook Ad Revenue, Free Streaming, Freemium, Freemium Music, IMDB Freedive, Radio, Spotify, Spotify Ad Supported, Tech Major Ad Revenue, Tech Majors, TV and Video
Amazon is reportedly close to launching an ad supported streaming music offering. Spotify’s stock price took an instant tumble.But the real story here is much bigger than the knee-jerk reactions of…
Read morePosted on 3rd April, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in 23 Capital, Albums, Amazon, Amuse, Apple, CDBaby, China, Emerging Markets, India, Laas, Labels As A Services, Latin America, Music Business, Music Business Trends, Music Industry, Netflix, Playlists, Podcasts, Post-album Economics, Radio, Record Labels, Social Music, Splice, Spotify, Streaming Pricing, Tech Major Bundles and Tech Majors
The IFPI has reported that global recorded music revenues have hit $19.1 billion, which means that MIDiA’s own estimates published in March were within 1.6% of the actual results. This revenue growth story is strong…
Read morePosted on 3rd April, 2019 by Georgia Meyer in Amazon, Conquesting Ads, Echo, Ecommerce, Instagram, Instagram Shop, Jetblack and Walmart
Commerce has moved online. In this rapidly evolving space, the dynamics of which govern the fortunes of so many businesses and brands, Amazon, Walmart and Instagram are playing their hands…
Read morePosted on 28th March, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Apple Arcade, Apple Content Revenue, Apple Music, Apple Services Revenue, Apple Subscriptions, Apple Tv and TV
On Tuesday Apple announced its arrival on the world stage as a media company, using the lion’s share of its product keynote as the platform for a succession of super…
Read morePosted on 21st February, 2019 by Alistair Taylor in Allsvenskan, Altice, Amazon, Amazon Fire Stick, Amazon Prime Video, Android TV, Audience Engagement, Audience Reach, BT Sport, Bundesliga, Carriage Partnerships, Chinese Super League, Disney, Disruptors, Distribution Partnerships, Domestic Rights, Eleven Sports, English Premier League, Eredivisie, Espn, Formula One, Google, Google Chromecast, IMG, La Liga, Liga Endesa Basketball, Ligue 1, Linear Broadcasters, Live Content, Live Sports, Nfl, NOS, Nowo, OTT, Over-the-top, Pay Tv, Portfolio Diversification, Premium Rights, Rights Acquisition, Rights Holders, ROI, Samsung, Serie A, Sky, SPFL, Sport TV, Sporting Rights, Sports Fans, Sports-centric, Subscribers, Subscription Video On Demand, Svod, Traditional Pay-TV, UEFA Champions League, Ufc, Value Propostion, Video Services and Vodafone
Eleven Sports announced last week it had successfully agreed long-term distribution agreements with all four TV operators in Portugal – Altice, NOS, Nowo and Vodafone. Achieving this agreement puts Eleven…
Read morePosted on 15th February, 2019 by Alistair Taylor in Addressable Audience, Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, BT, BT Sport, Crystal Palace, Digital Content, Eleven Sports, English Premier League, EPL, Espn, La Liga, Linear Offering, Netflix, Now TV, OTT, Pragmatism-gap, Premier League TV, Premier Sports, Premium Rights, Rights Acquisition, Rights Landscape, Serie A, Setanta Sports, Singtel, Sky, Sport Rights, Strategy, Streaming Service, Subscribers, Subscription Video On Demand, Svod, TalkSPORT, The Sunday Times, Traditional Broadcasters and USP
Following the English Premier League (EPL) announcing in November its plans to launch its own streaming service for the next rights cycle (2022-2025), the Sunday Times reported that the EPL…
Read morePosted on 6th February, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Amazon, Amazon Alexa, Anchor, Apple Homepod, Apple Music, Digital Advertising, Echo, Gimlet, Google Home, Podcasts, Radio, Spotify, Tech Strategy and Voice Control
Spotify is reported to have purchased the podcast companies Gimlet Media and Anchor. Having only just reported an operating profit for the first time, the deals demonstrate not only how…
Read morePosted on 1st February, 2019 by Tim Mulligan in Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, Comcast, Hulu, NBCU, Netflix, Video, Video Subscriptions and Warner Media
Amid all the excitement in the media world around the 2019 launches of direct-to-consumer services from such illustrious content producers as Disney and Warner Media, one clear question remains unanswered…
Read morePosted on 21st January, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in Amazon, Apple, Attention Economy, Attention Economy Peak, Cambridge Analytica, Essence Global, Facebook, Freemium, Making Free Pay, Netflix, Playstation, Premium. Privacy, Sony, Spotify, Streaming, Subscriptions, Uk Tv, Vevo and Xbox
2018 was a big year for subscriptions, across music (Spotify on target to hit 92 million subscribers), video (global subscriptions passed half a billion), games (98 million Xbox Live and…
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